This came through under the subject line: SCAMERS HAVE CONFESSED,THAT THEY STOLE YOUR MONEY (sic).
The Federal Government of Cotonou Benin through provisions in Section 419 of the Criminal Code came up with punitive measures to deter and punish offenders.
The Advance Fee Fraud section deal mainly with cases of advance
fee fraud(commonly called 419) such as obtaining by false pretence through
different fraudulent schemes e.g. contract scam, credit card scam,
inheritance scam, job scam, loan scam, lottery scam, “wash wash” scam (money
washing scam), marriage scam. Immigration scam, counterfeiting and religious
scam. It also investigates cyber crime cases.This is to officially announce to you that some scam Syndicates were
apprehended in Cotonou Benin few days ago and after several interrogations
and tortures your details were among those mentioned by some of the scam
Syndicates as one of the victims of their operations.
Torture … even scammers who are pretending to fight scammers are doing it.
After proper investigations and research at Western Union Money Transfer and
Money Gram office to know if you have truly sent money to the scam
Syndicates through Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram, your name was found in Western Union Money Transfer database amongst those that have sent money through Western Union Money Transfer to Nigeria and Cotonou Benin this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real.Right now we are working hand in hand with Western Union and Interpol to
track every fraudsters down, do not respond to their e-mails, letters and
phone calls any longer they are scammers and you should be very careful to
avoid being a victim to fraudsters any longer because they have nothing to
offer you but to rip-off what you have worked hard to earn.
Yes. A word to the wise is sufficient.
In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and as a consequence of our
investigations it was agreed that the sum of five milion three hundred thousand US Dollars (US$5.3m,should be transferred to you out of the funds due to you from Federal Government of Nigeria and Benin Republic.We have deposited your fund at Western Union Money Transfer agent location
EMS Post office Cotonou Benin Republic. We have submitted your details to them so that your fund can be transferred to you,but they recontacted us that the funds are too large to be transfered via western union or money gram,so the only option is to transfer these said 5.3million usd to you ,in form of an INTERNATIONAL ATM CARD,that will still contain the same amount, …
Do you know how long it would take to withdraw “five milion dollars” in $250 increments from the ATM?
… so go ahead and contact the persenell that will help you make sure this ATM CARD gets to you but you are only required to send to her the delivery charges of 150usd (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTHY UNITED STATES DOLLARS) and after that she will make sure that this CARD reaches you within 24hrs
I’ll tell you what, Benin: you keep the “five milion dollars” and use it to buy a good spell checker, okay?
Contact the PERSONELL through the email address stated
below,inform her about this notification letter and the transfer of your
fund;CONTACT NAME:SARAH WILSON
Email:( [redacted] )
Remember that you are not the only scam victim ,we have so many scam cases in our office but you are lucky to fall among one of the people that will be getting these compensation funds,so if you feel reluctant to claim it ,we will cancel your name and sign it on the next scam victim waitiing on line to claim his/her compensation funds.
Yours sincerely,
ISAAC MOHAMED
Assistant Investigation Officer.
The International police Crimes Commission (I.P.U.C)
Rue/056 akpakpa Cotonou Benin Republic
If I cancel my name, will nobody ever, ever send stuff like this to me again? Because that would be worth “five milion dollars”, too.